Professor Stephen Tierney
Congratulations to Professor Stephen Tierney, who has been appointed Honorary King’s Counsel by His Majesty The King on the nomination of the Lord Justice General and the recommendation of First Minister John Swinney. This is the first time that this honour has been conferred in Scotland.
There are five recipients. Honorary King’s Counsel is an honorary award unique to the legal profession. It recognises those in the profession who have made a major contribution to the law of Scotland or the legal profession and how it is advanced, outwith practice as an advocate or solicitor advocate.
Before making nominations to the First Minister, the Lord Justice General consulted other judges, the Lord Advocate, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and the President of the Law Society of Scotland.
Richard Anderson and Gavin Kelly
Congratulations to Richard Anderson and Gavin Kelly on their appointment as members of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2024-25 academic year.
IAS brings together the knowledge and expertise of more than 250 of the most promising Post-Doctoral Researchers and distinguished scholars from around the world within a prestigious, interdisciplinary, and collaborative environment.
Past IAS Faculty include Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, John von Neumann, Hetty Goldman, George Kennan, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, so they are certainly among a stellar crowd.
Andrew Manches
Congratulations to Andrew Manches, who has received a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) award for a project to empower young children to understand and benefit from their personal data. As Director of the Centre’s Children and Technology, Andrew leads on a project to change perceptions about children and their personal data through the creation of cutting-edge, child-centred tools and teaching practices.
The project is one of 36 UKRI funded projects which are designed to stimulate exciting interdisciplinary research. Dr Manche’s project works with 270 children aged three to eight in schools, Edinburgh Zoo and Glasgow Science Centre to construct physical representations of personal data that children can touch, explore, talk about and learn with. It contributes knowledge to early learning, cognitive psychology, child-centred design, data ethics, data visualisation and computer science.